The Caldwell County School System in North Carolina has equipped its boardroom with a new AV system that shows meeting agendas and presentations on multiple screens around the room for those attending in-person and streams broadcasts of board meetings to viewers attending meetings virtually. Mobile modular furniture and an Extron NAV Pro AV over IP system has transformed a meeting room into a hub of collaboration.
The venue hosts community forums, teacher in-service training sessions, K-12 classes, and monthly school board meetings. Eight AV-equipped workstations line the walls of the room. The workstations independently originate and display AV content shareable to the other workstations and to the Internet. Each workstation has a unique colour ID, signified by the colour of the buttons on its touchpanel user interface.
To support active learning and other use cases where people collaborate in small groups and also share to neighboring groups in the room, each workstation has its own display, PC, NAV encoder, NAV scaling decoder, and TouchLink Pro touchpanel.
ShareLink Pro wireless presentation systems allow wireless sharing from portable devices. Multicolor LED light strips controlled by the AV system backlight the top and bottom of each station display to indicate at a glance which station is originating the content appearing on the screen.
The bottom backlight shows the workstation's own colour ID, while the top backlight shows the colour ID of the workstation supplying the displayed content. The district’s in-house IT/AV team designed, installed, programmed and operates the boardroom AV system.